[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Militants affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group suffered heavy casualties during the Arclight airstrikes conducted by the Afghan Air Force in northern Jawzjan province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North said the airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of the restive Darzab district.
The source further added that the turbans were targeted in Qazal Qeshlaq, Darya Khana, and Pesta Bazar areas of the district.
According to Shaheen Corps, at least ten turbans were killed and five others were maimed during the airstrikes.
This comes as the local officials said Tuesday that ISIS turbans launched a coordinated attack on security posts in Darzab district late on Monday night.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least six Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were maimed in an kaboom in Kabul city today, the defense authorities confirmed.
According to a statement by the Ministry of Defense (MoD), the incident took place at around 7:30 am local time in Millie Bus Road located in the 16th police district of the city.
The statement further added that two magnetic bombs planted in a electricity pylon went off as the Afghan armed forces were crossing the area.
The Ministry of Defense said the six have sustained minor injuries in the kaboom.
This comes as the Ministry of Public Health officials had earlier said that three maimed people have been transferred to the hospital for the treatment.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan intelligence operatives thwarted a deadly kaboom plot in Lashkargah city, the bustling provincial capital of southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
The local officials said a cycle of violence packed with explosives was discovered before the turbans manage to use for an attack in the city.
The officials further added that the cycle of violence bomb was parked in Money Exchangers Market in the vicinity of 7th police district of Lashkargah.
According to the officials, the turbans were looking to detonate the cycle of violence in a crowded part of the city.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A local Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... leader was killed along with another Lion of Islam in a premature kaboom triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device in eastern Laghman ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the two bully boyz were looking to plan an Improvised Explosive Device on a roadside frequented by the Afghan forces in Alisheng district.
The statement further added that the explosives went off prematurely as they were busy planting it, leaving two people dead, including a local leader of the Taliban identified as Sayeda Gul.
According to the governor’s office, the bully boyz killed in the kaboom were involved in major terrorist related activities in this province.
The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups frequently use explosives materials for the roadside kaboomings and boom-mobileings to target the government staff and security personnel.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... in majority of such incidents the ordinary civilians are targeted besides such bombings incur casualties to the security personnel and in some cases the Talibs themselves are killed or maimed.
A total of 10,453 civilian casualties ‐ 3,438 people killed and 7,015 injured ‐ were documented in the 2017 Annual Report released last month by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office.
The report further added that the high number of casualties to the civilians were inflicted by suicide kabooms and other attacks using improvised bombs (IEDs).
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Heavily armed soldiers loyal to lower house speaker Mohammed Osman Jawari seized control of the parliament building in Mogadishu ahead on impeachment motion against him.
The troops were reported to have laid siege to the building before the arrival of the opposition politicians signed the no-confidence motion aimed at ousting the Jawari.
Speaking to Radio Shabelle, Dahir Amin Jesow, who is among the MPs tabled the motion has confirmed the takeover of the parliament headquarters by Jawari loyalists.
There were reports of heavy security presence outside the parliament building and main streets of the capital, halting public transportations and people’s movements.
Amid the chaos, pro-Jawari MPs are at the buildings are planning to debate Kenya’s security wall construction on Beled-Hawo-Mandera border, according to the speaker.
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[NEWS24] Five Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ian soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military post in the far north of the country, sources told AFP on Tuesday.
The five, one of whom was an officer, were killed on Monday night in the village of Sagme, close to the Nigerian border and the Lake Chad region, according to relatives and local sources. Three other soldiers were maimed.
No one has grabbed credit for the killings but the area has seen many incursions by the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... in the past.
The Cameroonian army has not commented.
Cameroon, along with Chad and Niger, has joined a military effort by Nigeria to crush Boko Haram, a krazed killer movement opposed to Western influence and seeking an Islamic state based on Sharia law, but the countries have increasingly seen the conflict spread across their borders.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Belgrade High Court of Serbia on Wednesday sentenced seven people to prison on charges of sending fighters and money to terrorist groups fighting in Syria, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported this afternoon.
According to the report, the seven defendants were sentenced to up to eleven years in prison for working with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) and al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front.
Of the seven charged by the Belgrade High Court, three of them were sentenced in absentia.
One of the missing defendants is believed to have been killed while fighting with the terrorist groups in Syria.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named added that the majority of the defendants came from the Sandzak region of southern Serbia; they would also deny the charges.
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[DAWN] Law enforcement agencies have tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! the leader of a gang of hitmen belonging to the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP), who were involved in the killing of 16 coppers over the last three months in the city, and raids are being conducted to arrest other members of the gang.
This was disclosed by Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Chief Minister Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo at a presser here on Tuesday after presiding over a meeting on the law and order situation in the province. Provincial Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti accompanied the chief minister.
"Fazal Haq Ghaibzai, the ring leader of the TTP button mans'>button men, was arrested during a joint operation by police, the Counter Terrorism Department and the Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... on Tuesday night on the basis of intelligence information," Mr Bizenjo said.
He said Ghaibzai had confessed during interrogation that he and five members of his gang had killed some senior coppers and FC personnel in different areas of Quetta.
The chief minister said Ghaibzai was a resident of Quetta and his father was a prayer leader at the mosque of a local school.
Sarfaraz Bugti said Ghaibzai had told interrogators that Raziq Achakzai, an Afghan commander who ran terrorism training camps in Spin Buldak, had provided money to his gang.
"Ghaibzai said Asim Muhammad Hasni, one of his accomplices, used his wife in different terrorist acts and for hiding weapons. He said Pir Ain-uz-Zaman is emir of the TTP Balochistan and the killers’ gang was formed on his order," Mr Bugti added.
He said security forces had found a lead about the suicide kaboom on a Quetta church in December last year and recovered the wireless set that had been in use of traffic sergeant Hafiz Niazi who was killed on Iqbal Road in Quetta.
Mr Bugti said that during the last two months there were threats of suicide attacks in Quetta and other areas of Balochistan, but security forces had foiled over a dozen such attempts and arrested several suspects.
A video of the suspected terrorist was shown to the media in which he said the TTP Balochistan emir’s associates, including his deputy, were based in Spin Boldak.
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Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on Wednesday seven bandidosDeath Eaters of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... city as the government troops continue launching crackdowns nationwide to purge the country from terrorism, a front man for the Iraqi Interior Ministry was quoted as saying.
In a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Baghdad Today, Maj. Gen. Saad Maan said, "Nineveh police launched a manhunt for Islamic State Death Eaters in the eastern village of Yarmaja, southeast of Mosul."
"The troops arrested seven IS bandidosDeath Eaters in the operation, who are wanted pursuant to article ¼ of the anti-terror law," the statement read.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Two suicide attackers were killed, while three rest houses of Islamic State members were destroyed, north of Ramadi city, Anbar police announced.
“Security troops carried out a wide-scale military operation in al-Therthar island, north of Ramadi, leaving two suicide bombers killed, three rest houses of IS destroyed and a weapon stash exploded,” Maj. Gen. Hadi Rezeij, commander of Anabr police, told BasNews on Wednesday.
“Information from the intelligence department indicated presence of IS cell in the island and that there were plans to attack al-Bou Ali al-Jasim region, north of Ramadi,” he added.
The attackers, according to Rezeij, “are involved in killing army and police officers over the past few days, as well as targeting security forces’ vehicles through explosives across Anbar.”
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Seven Islamic State members were killed inside a tunnel in west of Anbar, a military source from the province said on Wednesday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, “troops of the 29th brigade of the seventh division, backed by tribes, chased, today, seven militants in desert of Hit city, west of Ramadi.”
“The militants went inside one of the tunnels in Hit desert before they were besieged,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added.
“U.S.-led Coalition jets shelled the tunnel and killed all the militants,” he said.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi Armed Forces carried out a special operation this week that targeted a high ranking commander of the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in the al-Anbar Governorate.
The Iraqi military was able to gather important details about the location of the ISIS commander before they launched their operation to kill him and his associates near the lovely provincial capital of al-Ramadi.
According to Iraqi sources, the Islamic State emir of the Tharthar Desert, ’Omar Safouk, was killed by the Iraqi military in northern al-Ramadi this week.
The Iraqi sources added that Safouk was killed alongside a dozen of his associates in the Tharthar Desert of al-Ramadi.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Five Islamic State members were killed in a security checkpoint, southwest of Kirkuk, the pro-government paramilitary troops said on Wednesday.
A statement by the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said, “Intelligence of the 16th brigade, part of the northern axis forces, set up an ambush for Islamic State militants in a village in al-Rashad town, southwest of Kirkuk.”
The operation, according to the statement, “left five Islamic State members killed. Two of them were recognized. They were senior leaders Ali Jamil Hussein and Duham Jaishi Mutallak, who is the nephew of the IS Emir there in the region.”
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have denied news that Kurdish troops accessed Kirkuk province, saying that remarks made by the Pentagon is an attempt to stir controversy among people in the province.
“Security troops, along with al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) are fully in control of Kirkuk province,” Ali al-Husseini, spokesperson for the PMFs in the northern axis, told Almaalomah website on Wednesday. “Lt.Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah, commander of Joint Operation, visited Kirkuk today and highlighted necessity to preserve security there.”
“The recent remarks by Pentagon over Peshmerga accessing Kirkuk are incorrect,” Husseini said. “What was circulated is an attempt to stir controversy among people in Kirkuk.”
News reports quoted a source from U.S. Pentagon, earlier today, as saying that special forces of Peshmerga accessed Kirkuk, after coordination with Baghdad.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi security forces launched on Wednesday a military operation to hunt for dormant Islamic State (IS) militants in Diyala governorate, managing to kill a senior leader along with seven of his aides, security sources were quoted as saying.
“Acting upon accurate intelligence reports, Iraqi troops killed Abu Nabil al-Iraqi, the mastermind of several terrorist attacks launched by Islamic State, and seven of his aides in a military operation in northeastern Diyala,” Shafaq News quoted the sources as saying.
Al-Iraqi, according to the sources, was in charge of “providing the militant group with financial and logistic support to target security forces in Diyala.”
Count up the number of ears, divide by two and round up to the nearest whole number, then compare to the number of noses. Whichever number is higher wins.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Several Islamic State members were killed and injured as result of explosion of bombs planted by the militant group on the borders of Salahuddin province, a local source from Diyala said.
“Islamic State members fell into a trap made by the militant group, which planted explosives at the outskirts of Mutaibija region, on borders between Diyala and Salahuddin. Some of them killed and injured, as per the preliminary information,” the source told AlSumaria News on Wednesday.
“The explosives are traps made by the militants to encounter progress of security troops,” the source, who preferred anonymity, said, describing it as the tool used by IS at areas, where the militants exist.
Mutaibija has complicated terrain, with numerous hills that serve as a good hideout for militants. Occasional attacks have been witnessed there by Islamic State against government and paramilitary troops deployments since Iraqi forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition and PMUs, launched a major offensive to retake areas occupied by IS since 2014.
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In the interests of alliteration this should read "Diyala Dead Dudes Documented"..Dicks? Douches? Dumbasses?
[Jpost] Palestinians plan to engulf the Gaza border with smoke and flames from thousands of burning tires on Friday as Israel holds firm to its order to shoot any protesters who come close to the security barrier.
In the past several days, groups of young Gazans have been collecting old tires around the Strip and bringing them to the border.
Palestinians intend to light the tires on fire to blur the vision of the soldiers on the Israeli side of the security fence, according to a Gaza-based source familiar with preparations for what he called "the Friday of Old Tires. Al Gore to the rescue?
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No. No recycling. I remember a pair of sandals I used to have that were made in Mexico using old tires. I had those things for years and they never came close to wearing out. I finally lost them and that was a sad day because they were cool.
The point is, instead of being destructive and making fools of themselves the Palestinians could be finding creative, peaceful and even profitable uses for those old tires. But then, they are Palestinians.
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Next they will complain to the U.N. that they can't drive anywhere because all their tires have been burned up.
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Burning tires produce smoke and soot as well as the deadly warming poison CO2. Greenpeace should be up in (peaceful) arms about this.
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A friend of mine was in Viet Nam back in the day and was rotating home after his last patrol. He had wanted a pair of Ho Chi Min sandals (made from old tires and worn by the VC) and decided to get a pair on this patrol. He did get a pair and when relating the story at work the lady next to us asked how he got a pair out in the jungle. She was appaled when he told her he took them off a VC. She said, "How could you take that poor man's Shoes?" He sai, "Lady, that "poor man" was trying to kill me a few minutes earlier and I figured he wouldn't need them any more". I laughed till I hurt.
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P.S. He had killed the VC.
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If your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you want to call attention to your location, set your spare tire on fire - well away from your car, of course. The reasonably smoke column is easy to see in daylight & reasonably clear weather.
[IsraelTimes] Security forces say plan to fire a missile at ship, kidnap the survivors, was part of Dire Revenge campaign for tunnel destroyed last year
Security forces incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a member of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
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[AnNahar] The expected loss of Eastern Ghouta will deal Syria's fragmented rebels their biggest blow yet, leaving them unable to threaten Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... in Damascus and increasingly subservient to competing global interests.
Just weeks after their ill-fated uprising turned seven years old, Syrian opposition fighters have found themselves bussed out of their one-time bastion on the capital's outskirts.
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[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... the past week has spoken of pulling out of Syria "very soon." But American forces have been setting up new front-line positions outside the strategic northern town of Manbij, west of the Euphrates River.
The area is the scene of a tense standoff where US-backed Kurdish-led forces who hold Manbij face Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian fighters. The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... has vowed to retake Manbij and other Kurdish-held territory along the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border; the US troops stationed here are a key reason why they are holding back.
The US-led coalition in Syria had said there are no US bases in the area and that US patrols were not static. There was no immediate comment from the coalition this afternoon.
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T. says one thing does another... except when he does exactly what he says he will; makes him kinda hard to game, don't it?
[ALMASDARNEWS] Units of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) discovered an underground tunnel network connecting two underground field hospitals left behind by Lion of Islam groups in the Eastern Ghouta town of Arbeen, Monday, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).
Footage captured on Monday, shows Syrian Army soldiers walking down the tunnel ‐ which according to SANA, extends for more than 400 metres ‐ and discovering an abandoned underground field hospital.
According to SANA, army units have discovered a network of tunnels extending for several kilometres and connecting Lion of Islam positions and underground bases throughout the once-militant controlled districts of Jobar, Ayn Tarma, Arbeen and Zamalka.
Footage captured on Sunday, on the national highway between Zamalka and Jobar shows the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) clearing the area from rubble and wreckage.
In the last weeks, deals were made between holy warriors and Syrian government forces, which allowed holy warriors and their families to relocate out of the Eastern Ghouta area into the northwest of Syria.
[AlAhram] Syrian rebel group Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... released five prisoners including civilians on Wednesday as part of a deal over the eastern Ghouta town of Douma, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The UK-based war monitor said the murderous Moslems had kidnapped them from the nearby town of Adra around five years ago.
Syrian state TV separately said the army had freed four women and a man from the hard boyz as part of "efforts...to liberate all the prisoners in Douma."
Syrian government forces, backed by Russia, have now recaptured nearly all of eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus, from the rebels in a ferocious assault that began in February, marking a major victory for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... Jaish al-Islam holds more than 3,500 prisoners and hostages in total, Rami Abdulrahman, director of the Observatory, told Rooters.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
